Sakura hummed, typing away on the computer on her desk. The day had started seemingly normal like the past few days she had been assigned to work on mission reports, expect she was almost done early and before lunch no less.

She couldn't wait to get home and pop a movie in her DVD player. She could practically hear a rom-com calling her to the plasma screen in her living room.

With that motivation in mind, Sakura continued to furiously type away liking her lips as she focused a hundred percent on her work. Not even Ino could distract her now.

Speaking of the blonde, Sakura paused to look around the office briefly wondering where the hell she was anyways. She hadn't seen the girl since she dropped her purse in the little cubicle and ran off claiming she had to go to the restroom.

Shaking her head, Sakura cracked her knuckles and with a shrug, she continued her mindless typing. Just one more paragraph and then to file is in its correct destination before she could call it a day-

"Forehead!" Ino shouted sneaking up on the pinkette who had accidentally thrown a very sharp pen at her which the blonde dodged. Sakura still wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not sometimes she did wish she had hit her target instead of the thin wall.

"What is it pig?" Sakura said retrieving the pen with a hard tug until it came loose. "I was almost done."

"You have to come see this!" Ino gave a girly shout and then a giggle escaped her mouth. Sakura really wished she hadn't missed when the noise scraped her ears.

"What are you droning on about Ino?" Sakura asked plopping back down into her seat before being pulled back up by the energetic blonde. "I'm actually doing work today and here you go-"

"Shut up and listen!" Ino said slapping the side of her friend's head, "You stubborn…"

Sakura had stopped hearing her now angered friend as she watched the male strut forwards through the glass doors that lead from their humble little offices. She knew whoever he was, he was handsome. His hair jet black, tall and from where she stood she could fairly make out his pale luminous skin.

He was getting a tour of the department, the usual walkthrough before being led back to headquarters. However, no matter how many times she had seen it occur within sponsors and all the higher-ups, she felt bewitched, unable to tear her eyes away this time. Away from him.

It was almost as if her mind was trying to recognize his face, but Sakura felt confusion at how uninterested he seemed.

It irked her on some level how little emotion he seemed to radiate. She could tell his devoid attitude apart thanks to his non-verbal shrugs, noticing when his back arched as he hummed or grunted at whatever his tour guide said. There was something odd about it.

"That's him!" Ino commented breaking Sakura from her trance. "He's the reason why the office had been so quiet this morning. I heard someone mention a new agent hanging around the lobby and when I went to investigate, guess where I found all the girls from our department crowded?"

"New agent?" Sakura asked, her curiosity suddenly replaced with fury as she wondered why they had outsourced an agent, it was rare for Tsunade to even consider it. Why hadn't she been asked instead? She'd been waiting forever to move up the ladder and here they go bringing someone new in! What the hell made him so special?

"His name's Sasuke Uchiha," Ino explained, "apparently, everyone in his family is businessmen. Really, really wealthy businessmen with stocks in the agency; they've funded our department for decades."

"Pretty boy thinks he could buy his way into the system, huh? Well, let's see just how trained he is," Sakura scoffed dislodging the pen from the wall with one hard yank and held it like a dart towards this very handsome man who probably didn't deserve to take on the role of a spy.

"What?" Ino asked confused before realization dawned on her face as she jumped to hold her best friend down from doing anything stupid, "Wait, no! Sakura, no!"

Right when Sakura was ready to fling the pen, aiming straight for his beautiful behind, he had turned around. Sakura let go of the pen, letting it fall to the floor as a gasp from her shock escaped her.

She knew those eyes. They were the ones she could never forget; the ones that still haunted her to this day. He was the boy who had ran away from her and he had the nerve to roam his eyes over her before looking away just as uninterested as he had been that day at the hotel too.

Sakura's brow twitched, the anger returning to her in a full-blown force.

She quickly grabbed another pen from her desk and hurled it straight at his heart. She then screamed when he dodged it in a quick motion before waving at her with an infuriating smirk. Ino had to hold her back from chasing down the man Sakura wished she had not known about and Ino wished had never shown.

"What's gotten into you Sakura?!" Ino angrily asked, pulling Sakura out of sight from the Uchiha. For some reason, she had gone mental at the sight of him – and not in a good way.

They were supposed to fawn over his good looks.

"It's him!" Sakura screamed, grunting before her anger evaporated and suddenly there were tears in her red eyes.

Ino only watched in horror as the ever head-strong woman broke down and balled up into a ball on the floor.

"It's him," Sakura continued in-between sobs. "He's the one who found me the night my parents were murdered."

"You said they died in an accident," Ino asked confused, but trying her hardest to be supportive for her best friend as she sat next to Sakura on the floor and placed a comforting hand around her shaking form. "You never mentioned a boy, Sakura."

"It was a freak accident of sorts," Sakura confessed, her eyes shifting from the floor to the ceiling. Her mind was everywhere. She needed to get a grip and pull herself together because she was not weak.

Meanwhile, Ino knew from experience that it would be good for the girl to talk it out. People usually felt better after letting their emotions out into words. So, the blonde patiently waited in silence as her friend found the right words.

"The night before Tsuande found me, there was a boy," Sakura whispered, her voice becoming louder with every word, "A boy who found me, and when I asked for help, he ran far away from me. It had made me feel like shit for such a long time and now here he is again to ruin my life."

"How can you know for sure that it's him?" Ino asked, for the first time ever hearing about the boy. They had been friends for so long and the blonde always knew there was something else bothering the pink-haired girl. She just never imagined that it would be over a boy.

Sakura hesitated and the curiosity in Ino rose.

"Are you sure?" Ino asked, trying her best to not shatter Sakura's regained courage and put her back into that insecure bubble, "Maybe it's not him."

"Yes," Sakura said, certainty in her voice. "I've never been able to remember any distinguishing feature except his eyes. I know those eyes, Ino. There's nothing like it."

Ino merely watched the girl hug herself and her mind drifted back to Sasuke's eyes. He bore one red eye. It was an unmistakable mismatched pair of onyx and red orbs and Ino knew she had to believe Sakura.

No one had eyes like that. They weren't common shades like blues and browns. These were rare shades of the soul's genes.

Just like Sakura's unmistakable pink hair.

These were people you didn't forget in life.